Noss Sound Broch, Bressay

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Noss Sound Broch, Bressay island, Shetland Isles, Scotland. This broch stands as a rubble mound with two outer defensive banks. It's located on low ground by the sea, gazing across the 220m wide Noss Sound to the Isle of Noss. Some small sections of wall can be traced across the turf and at points where erosion has revealed them, but nothing substantial survives, indicating most of the good stone has likely been reused in later structures around the landscape. At the top of the mound are relatively recent rectangular structures. Brochs date back to the Iron Age and were built sometime between 500BC - 200AD. The broch was a tower where people lived, often with long continuity of use and modified into simpler structures as they fell into disrepair. Grid Reference: HU 5280 4096 Model created from Kite Aerial Photographs Photographed: August 19, 2017 Model created: September 15, 2017, with further processing in June 2019 using Agisoft MetaScape (standard).